Brendan Lemieux’s record as a Ranger is 1-4-4 (which in real life, or any other sport, is 1-8).

It’s not his fault, not at all. It’s nobody’s fault. But Lemieux is the only player who came back to the Rangers at the trade deadline, and that’s what the Rangers have been since that Feb. 25 afternoon.

It’s probably surprising there haven’t even been more of these games for the Rangers, more like this lopsided 5-1 loss to the Best of the West (for the moment) Calgary Flames on Friday night. The Rangers got run over, and 5-1 was flattering.

After the sell-off, this is exactly what we should have expected the Rangers to be. Yeah, there’ve been some good games, some competitive games, some battle-back games where they got points for ultimately losing. And it says a lot about what they’ve done and who they’ve been that this is the first time they’re two games under NHL-.500 (28-30-13, which is really 28-43) since Jan. 13.